Steven Spielberg to be honored with Berlinale Golden Bear and Homage – Deadline

Steven Spielberg will likely be feted with a particular homage on the 73rd version of the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition subsequent February.

The pageant will current Spielberg with an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement and likewise display most of his latest work, together with The Fabelmans. 

“With an unimaginable profession, Steven Spielberg has not solely enchanted generations of viewers everywhere in the world however has additionally given a brand new which means to the ‘cinema’ because the manufacturing unit of goals,” Berlinale director duo Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian mentioned in a joint assertion.

“Be it within the eternal magic world of youngsters or within the actuality that historical past has carved endlessly, his motion pictures take us to a special stage, the place the large display turns into the ample floor for our feelings to be fulfilled. If Berlinale 2023 represents a brand new starting we couldn’t discover a higher begin than the one supplied by Spielberg’s nice work.

Spielberg has 59 director credit and 180 producer credit to his identify in an award-winning, hit-making profession spanning 73 years.

He has been nominated for an Academy Award 19 instances and has taken three statuettes dwelling over years, comprising Greatest Director for Saving Personal Ryan in 1999 and Greatest Director and Greatest Image for Schindler’s Record in 1994.

Through the years, the director has additionally been feted worldwide by non-cinema our bodies, receiving the Grand Cross with Star of the Order of Advantage of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1998, in recognition of Schindler’s Record and his Shoah Basis.

In 2001, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). In 2015, he acquired the Presidential Medal of Freedom from sitting US President Barack Obama. 

Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, an autobiographical work impressed by the director’s childhood years, will likely be launched by Common Footage Germany in German theatres in March 2023. 

The Berlinale will run February 16-26 2023.